Anyone is Replaceable
January 6, 2010 by Mat Houchens
Filed under Football
Florida Gators have had a few coaching issues the past few weeks. The most infamous of all is the Meyer flip flop but we’ve had Strong leave for Louisville bringing the DB Coach and the RB coach with him. We had Billy Gonzalez, WR Coach, leave for LSU and Dan Mullen leave last year. But no one is irreplaceable! Even if Urban Meyer left, we would have found a great coach to take his place. This is proving true as Florida’s coaching staff is starting to fill out quite nicely.
Drayton is returning to Gainesville as running backs coach, the same position he held between 2005 and 2007. He spent the last two years atTennessee (2008) and Syracuse (2009). Drayton replaces Kenny Carter, who is joining Charlie Strong at Louisville.
Durkin comes to Florida as linebackers coach, taking on a role Strong held the last five years. Durkin spent the last three years at Stanford, where he worked with defensive ends and coordinated special teams.
A defensive graduate assistant under Urban Meyer at Bowling Green (2001-02), Durkin also worked at Notre Dame (2003-04) and Bowling Green (2005-06).
The defensive coordinator position is still up in the air and who’s in charge of that hiring wasn’t clear a couple weeks ago but with Meyer’s statement of returning 2010, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s his role to hire him. It doesn’t look like Addazio will have too much time to run the team as I’m sure Meyer will still be running the show this off season.
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